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  American President
Bainbridge Colby was born on December 22, 1869, in St. Louis, Missouri.
Colby earned a law degree from the New York Law School in 1892, the same year he was admitted to the bar and opened a New York City law practice.
Colby was at first a supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt but eventually became a critic of the New Deal, forming an anti-Roosevelt group named the American Liberty League.
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 Bainbridge Colby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bainbridge Colby (December 22, 1869 – April 11, 1950) was an American lawyer, a founder of the United States Progressive Party and Woodrow Wilson's last Secretary of State.
Prior to his death in 1950, Colby was the last surviving member of the Wilson Cabinet.
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 COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS
There are many Colbys that have left their mark on America.
John Colby deposed that Tho: Macy sold to his father Anthony Colby the house in which his mother now liveth, with a barn and orchard and an English pasture of an acre at ye Newtown on west side of Pawwaus river, in Salisbury for £38.
"A Genealogy of the Descendants of Abraham Colby and Elizabeth Blaisdell"
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 This Date In History (The New York Times)
Colby declined to do, on the ground that it was not necessary to detract from the dignity and importance of the signing of the proclamation by staging a scene in imitation of the actual signing of the proclamation.
Colby congratulated the women of the country on the successful culmination of their efforts in the face of discouragements, and declared the day "marks the opening of a great and new era in the political life of the nation."
Secretary Colby late this afternoon was asked by newspaper men to picture the scene that took place at his home when the final chapter of the story of ratification was reached.
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 Colby, Bainbridge - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
COLBY, BAINBRIDGE [Colby, Bainbridge] 1869-1950, U.S. lawyer and public official, b.
Upon graduation (1891) from Columbia law school, he began law practice in New York City and became active in Republican politics.
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 A Prophet's Reward
At this time she met her future husband, William Folwell Bainbridge, who was a student minister attached to the Christian Commission which was distributing tracts and providing spiritual comfort to the soldiers (Shattuck, 1987).
Samuel McMath Bainbridge was born in Romulus, New York, in 1816, a generation after members of his family had helped found the first Baptist church in that town (Centennial Executive Committee, 1894:104-105; cf.
Stark and I have criticized the traditional sociological concept of charisma (Stark and Bainbridge, 1987:195), and we have also noted that it might be conceptualized as an unusual ability of religious leaders to build effective social bonds (Stark and Bainbridge, 1985:356).
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 AllRefer.com - Bainbridge Colby (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Bainbridge Colby (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Bainbridge Colby 1869–1950, U.S. lawyer and public official, b.
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 | Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3 | The History Cooperative
If the August 1920 note from secretary of state Bainbridge Colby to the Italian ambassador Camillo Avezzana, who had asked about the U.S. policy toward Soviet Russia, was the "crystallization of Wilsonian diplomacy with respect to Soviet Russia," albeit "reached by an arduous route" (p.
Davis and Trani view only 1933–1945 as important, asserting that Franklin D. Roosevelt's policy was a departure from "cold war" that reinforced the return to Wilsonian cold war positions in 1946.
This ignores much, including the rise of Soviet-American trade in the late 1920s, famine relief efforts of 1921–1922 (the Hoover-Gorky agreement was the first Soviet-American treaty), and the integration of Soviet Russia into the world.
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 Examining Mark Twain's Assets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Bainbridge Colby, assignee of the firm of Charles L. Webster and Co., said that Mr.
Clemens had lost all of his money trying to keep the firm solvent, and that in its failure he had lost everything.
Colby's efforts to realize and pay them as much as possible, knowing that Mr.
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 CNN.com - Females win fight for political power - Aug 20, 2004
From the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew to the expulsion of activist Harry Wu from China, CNN looks back on the week of August 22nd to the 28th.
(CNN) -- On August 26, 1920, the United States took a giant democratic leap when Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving millions of American women the right to vote for the first time in the nation's history.
The landmark event ended a long and, especially in its later years, intense struggle in which women challenged the era's social norms to participate in the political process.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/08/20/womens.suffrage/index.html   (1055 words)

  
 George Bush Presidential Library and Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the amendment on August 18, 1920, the amendment passed its final hurdle of obtaining the agreement of three-fourths of the states.
Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the ratification on August 26, 1920, and the face of the American electorate changed forever.
The 19th Amendment has traveled a couple of times in recent years.
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 February/March 2004 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
The story of how the Marlborough Papers came to the Library of Congress is told in a Manuscript Division case file.
More letters ensued as Colby arranged for the gift to go "to an honored place in our great National Library," and on March 22, 1929, Colby advised Putnam that four wooden boxes "of considerable size" had been delivered to the U.S. Embassy in London for shipment under embassy seal to the Library.
A May 9, 1929, Library memorandum to the case file noted that the gift consisted of 155 pieces of historical material, including letters, documents, a small statue of Winged Victory, an illuminated book, press clippings and photos.
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 2004 Wash St School Districts Bainbridge Island, Battle Ground, Bellevue, Bellingham, Bethel, Bickleton, Blaine, ...
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Bainbridge Island, Battle Ground, Bellevue, Bellingham, Bethel, Bickleton, Blaine, Boistfort, Bremerton, Brewster, Bridgeport, Brinnon, and Burlington-Edison.
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 BakuSun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Turkey took Germany’s side in the war, and a bloody, unsuccessful campaign against Turkish territory cost Churchill his cabinet post.
The duke donated the letters to the library at the urging of Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state under U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, but they were misfiled.
They were uncovered when Daun Van Ee, a military historian at the library, found them in a collection of manuscripts as she was preparing an exhibit on Churchill’s life.
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 Index Co-Cz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
His candidness, championed by some as having resuscitated CIA credibility during its most troubled period, led to his premature resignation (he served until Sept. 30, 1976) and ultimately brought the agency under congressional oversight.
Gerald Ford, Colby became an advocate for the reduction of nuclear arms.
He served on the city council of Regina, Sask., in 1922-32 and was provincial leader of the Saskatchewan Farmer-Labour Party in 1932-35.
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 SparkNotes: Woodrow Wilson: Important Terms, People, and Events
Georges Clemenceau - Georges Clemenceau was the Premier of France during and after World War I. He was a member of the Big Four at the Paris Peace Conference.
Bainbridge Colby - Bainbridge Colby served as President Wilson's third Secretary of State towards the end of his second administration.
He and Wilson also established a Washington, D.C., law firm after Wilson stepped down as President.
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COLBY, FRANK MOORE - CORRESPONDENCE TO HYDE,GEORGE MERRIAM (189?) George Merriam Hyde Papers
COLBY, GEORGE-CORRESP.-(1871) Archives, Maryland Province, Society of Jesus
COLBY, GINA - SEE: THOMPSON, GINA Colby-Shewring Collection
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 Chronology 1920
Allied forces occupied the Memel district and placed the port under Allied control.
Robert Lansing resigned as the U.S. Secretary of State and was replaced by Bainbridge Colby.
The League of Nations admitted Colombia as a member state of the organization.
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 Charles Webster Company Affairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Samuel L. Clemens, (Mark Twain,) senior partner of the publishing house of Charles L. Webster and Co., sailed for Europe yesterday on the steamship New York.
Clemens held an extended conference with Bainbridge Colby, the assignee of the company.
The liabilities of the firm will not exceed $80,000.
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 Campaign Timeline
The WRU student newspaper reported that, "The formation of two political clubs of equal strength has crystallized party bitterness on the campus into a stern battle for votes which will come to a climax on Friday before the November elections when a straw vote will be taken."
On August 26, 1920 Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In 1920 26 million women voted in the presidential election.
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